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Arthur A. Thompson, Jr., earned his B.S and Ph.D. degrees in economics from The University of Tennessee, spent three years on the economics faculty at Virginia Tech, and served on the faculty of The University of Alabama's College of Commerce and Business Administration for 24 years. In 1974 and again in 1982, Dr. Thompson spent semester-long sabbaticals as a visiting scholar at the Harvard Business School.
His areas of specialization are business strategy, competition and market analysis, and the economics of business enterprises. In addition to publishing over 30 articles in some 25 different professional and trade publications, he has authored or co-authored five textbooks and six computer-based simulation exercises. His textbooks and strategy simulations have been used at well over 1,000 college and university campuses worldwide.
Dr. Thompson spends much of his off-campus time giving presentations, putting on management development programs, working with companies, and helping operate a business simulation enterprise in which he is a major partner.
Dr.Thompson and his wife of 56 years have two daughters, two grandchildren, and a Yorkshire terrier.
Part One: Concepts and Techniques for Crafting and Executing Strategy
Section A: Introduction and Overview
Chapter 1: What Is Strategy and Why Is It Important?
Chapter 2: Charting a Company’s Direction: Its Vision, Mission, Objectives, and Strategy
Section B: Core Concepts and Analytical Tools
Chapter 3: Evaluating a Company’s External Environment
Chapter 4: Evaluating a Company’s Resources, Capabilities, and Competitiveness
Section C: Crafting a Strategy
Chapter 5: The Five Generic Competitive Strategies
Chapter 6: Strengthening a Company’s Competitive Position
Chapter 7: Strategies for Competing in International Markets
Chapter 8: Corporate Strategy
Chapter 9: Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility, Environmental Sustainability, and Strategy
Section D: Executing the Strategy
Chapter 10: Building an Organization Capable of Good Strategy Execution
Chapter 11: Managing Internal Operations
Chapter 12: Corporate Culture and Leadership
Part Two: Readings
Section A: What Is Strategy and How Is the Process of Crafting and Executing Strategy Managed?
Reading 1: The Perils of Bad Strategy
Reading 2: How to Identify New Business Models
Reading 3: Strategy Making: The Approach Matters
Reading 4: The Real Job of Boards
Section B: Crafting Strategy in Single-Business Companies
Reading 5: Which Strategy When?
Reading 6: A Shared Fate
Reading 7: Adaptability: The New Competitive Advantage
Reading 8: Dynamic Capabilities: A Guide for Managers
Reading 9: Profiting When Customers Choose Value over Price
Reading10: Competing against Free
Reading 11: The New M&A Playbook
Reading 12: Adding Value through Offshoring
Section C: Crafting Strategy in International and Diversified Companies
Reading 13: Is Your Emerging-Market Strategy Local Enough?
Reading 14: Strategic Orchestration
Reading 15: Diversification: Best Practices of the Leading Companies
Reading 16: Successful Divestitures Need Proper Cultivation
Section D: Strategy, Ethics, Social Responsibility, and Sustainability
Reading 17: How to Do Well and Do Good
Reading 18: Managing Moral Distress: A Strategy for Resolving Ethical Dilemmas
Section E: Executing Strategy
Reading 19: The Role of Perceived Benefits of Training in Generating Affective Commitment and High Value of Firms
Reading 20: The Learning Enterprise
Reading 21: Why Operational Excellence Matters
Reading 22: Using Knowledge Brokering to Improve Business Processes
Reading 23: Corporate Culture: Its Value as a Resource for Competitive Advantage
Reading 24: What Matters Now
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